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As part of our project with the People's History Museum Voting for Change we have recently acquired, thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund money, a small but seminal booklet from 1856, A brief summary in plain language of the most important laws concerning women by Barbara Leigh Smith. Volunteer Eddie...
With Holocaust memorial day coming up on 27 January we thought we would share a story about a refugee from Nazi Germany who came to the UK in 1933. Hermann Ehlert was born on 14 January 1912 and was 21 when he left Germany and settled in Manchester. He...
From Tim Dunbar, the artist who last year at the Library showed his drawing project based on an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the exhibition of Picasso’s Guernica in a car showroom in Manchester in 1939 - details here: Thought you'd be interested in an update on my ongoing...
Thanks very much to Geoff who has not only recently donated to the Library two interesting items, but has also researched and written up for us a bit about them: Sorting out family archives, trying to practise what I preach, I found two items from my partner Judy Paskell's...
People use our collections for all sorts of reasons. A poet called Oliver Lomax came in recently to read some of our eye-witness accounts of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He is now generously sharing his resulting poem: Peterloo I beg you will endeavour to preserve the most perfect...
